My trip to South Park Street Cemetery now on Elsewhere.

Spring 2025 issue of Asymptote Journal is here. Spotlight on Korean lit, new translations of Chekhov and Pushkin, our first work from Guyana, Lesotho, and Paraguay, interviews with Federico Federici and Monica Ong, blending biophysics and astronomy with art and poetry.
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Spring brings the crow family nesting again on the devil's tree in front of my house. I live with a murder of #crows. It was about time I dedicated an essay to the #corvids. Entries from my crow #journal, #ravens in popular culture, and books on corvids!

sayanisarkar.substack.com/p/on-corvids

Absolutely spiffed to see my hybrid essay in the print issue of @tamarindlit.co.uk. The Ripening is about eggs, gestation, medical history, growth, biological timescales, mythology, evolutions biology, and contemporary philosophy. I hope I can keep C.P. Snow's dream alive. Grab a copy 💓

Winter 2025 issue of Asymptote Journal is here! Contains Elsa Gribinski’s absurdist diary entries, exclusive interviews with Agustín Fernández Mallo and Tan Pin Pin, poetry by Osip Mandelstam and Natsume Sōseki, and fiction by Lidija Dimkovska and Jurj Salem.
asymptotejournal.com/jan-2025

Elon Musk has every right to say what he likes. And, yes, he & his fellow broligarchs are not the first billionaires driving politics. But, two things are new: A new hyperweapon they possess (cloud capital). Plus their hypocritical free speech campaign www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/06/m...

Made an #icosahedron yesterday. Modular #origami project.

Looking forward to this book from PUP!

My latest essay on psychoanalytical books by Adam Phillips, Leo Bersani, Alison Bechdel, Frank Tallis, and psychogeography by Tina Richardson. #psychoanalysis is suddenly making a steady rumble in our popular discourse.
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A polymath's shelves.

Flurry of new followers from ubiquitin biology yesterday. I left academia five years ago, but I miss it too sometimes. Here's my major research paper from grad school years if anyone's interested.

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I made this dainty lino block print of a Narcomedusae order of jellyfish on beautiful handmade deep blue Japanese Chitose Gunjo paper with silk fibres which add to the organic feel of the piece and makes each print rather unique. A bonus #jellyfish this #InsertAnInvert2024 blob month.

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#WritingCommunity, introducing myself here! Working on a hybrid nonfiction memoir blending natural history, the Tree of Life, growing up in 90s India, learning biology, academic journey and its joys and perils, and colonial history.

Any olfactory enthusiasts here? Sharing a little something I enjoyed reading and talking about the science, language, and culture of smells.

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The free e-book from University of Chicago Press for September is From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America by Kimberly Hamlin ~ tinyurl.com/yc9lynf3 #histsci

When a certain social platform which-must-not-be-named became a dumpster fire, I thought I would never get back the wonderful community of academics, writers, and creatives. Never too late to reconnect. Happy to be here, #AcademicSky!